That wacky Pope! He hates Harry Potter!

Here’s some news to make you smile (or shake your head in embarrassment): The Pope apparently hates Harry Potter: “‘It is good that you enlighten people about Harry Potter, because these are subtle seductions which act unnoticed and by this deeply distort Christianity in the soul, before it can grow properly,’ Benedict wrote, according to the excerpt.”

What is it about the mainstream Catholic churches (in general) and the Catholic church (in specific) that makes them so frightened of works of fiction? Let us not forget that, earlier this year, the Catholic church railed against The Da Vinci Code.